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ss vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| substance farming | when farmers produced just enough food for the family's needs |
| export | sell it elsewhere |
| import | buy goods brought in from europe |
| royal colony | a colony under control of the king |
| proprietary colony | a colony awarded to one person or a group of people by the king |
| triangular trade | a 3-way trasatliantic commercial network connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
| frontier | a thinly settled area on the outer limits of the colonies |
| meeting house | a building used for community gatherings, public buisness, and religious worship |
| apprentice | worker who learns a skilled trade, craft, or profession by working under guidence under an expert |
| naval stores | products derived from pine and coniferous trees resins |
| patroon | landowner in the Dutch colonies who received rent, taxes, and labor from tenant farmers |
| great migration | mass movement off 6-7 million black Americans who relocated |
| Conestoga wagon | a type of horse- drawn covered wagon used to transport grain |
| common wealth | a self-governing political unit |
| cash crop | a crop grown to be sold |
| puritans | member of the Anglican church who wanted to "purify" it |
| constitution | a document presenting a plan of government |
| separtists | those who left the Anglican church |
| fundamental orders of Connecticut | the first American constitution or plan of government |
| pilgrims | English settlers seeking religious freedom in the Americas |
| toleration | the acceptance of different beliefs |
| mayflower |